07-12-2012, 09:33 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-13-2012, 10:57 AM by Tony Wells.)
One of the first shops I worked in we used almost exclusively shop made or remade brazed bits. We had a ribbon of some kind, I don't know the alloy, but we fluxed it, planted the carbide blank in place and rosebudded it. Usually it stayed close enough to where we put it. Then we diamond ground it to what we needed. No carbide inserts in that shop at all. I have used regular flux covered brazing rods for that, making special boring or grooving bars by brazing old inserts onto round stock. I usually put a little Gebhardt (sp?) Ultraflux paste on it as well. Seems to work for me.